Pours a nice gold with no real foam and carbonation that rises slowly, almost looks like sediment. The aroma is very sweet apple, apricot, Dairy Queen banana split figures prominent, some dry green apple skin tannins in there (and every time I think of green apple I think of that Seattle band... what a curse). Warming up it starts to really shine with green apple (a quick step from whence it was chilled) and ends up sweet but not excessively so. Flavour is much less sweet, bitter apple flowing into twig notes and the mead smoothing it all out and providing some needed sweetness, honeydew melon in overdrive perhaps but I'm not a big melon eater. Mouthfeel is a little boozy to start but with modest cider hints. Not as sweet as I expected but still has some decent elements.